SQL

5 statements across 5 episodes · 3 bullish · 0 bearish · 5 people on the record · first statement May 15, 2019 by Romain Lapeyre · said 3 times in 2 episodes since 2019 · across every show →

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May 15, 2019 positive
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Startup employees can learn sufficient beginner SQL in five days
“All the people I've seen learning SQL, it took them, like, four or five days to get, like, a beginner level that's enough to start understanding things”
Romain Lapeyre May 15, 2019 ▶ 25:03 Lessons from Gorgias: How to Close your First 1000 Customers Based Solely on Data
Feb 10, 2022 neutral
Assertion Supported
Eifrem: ISO adoption of GQL broke SQL's multi-decade query language monopoly
“So in databases, there really only been one officially sanctioned blessed query language called sequel until a couple of years ago when the ISO ended up blessing GQ as the formal query language for graph databases.”
Emil Eifrem Feb 10, 2022 ▶ 11:58 Lessons Learned Building a $2 Billion Company from Scratch with Neo4j CEO & Co-Founder Emil Eifrem
Dec 8, 2023 positive
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Tunguz: LLMs replace 3 to 12 months of SQL training for data analysis
“It's really much easier for someone who's maybe not be as sophisticated with SQL to suddenly start asking and answering questions of their data in ways that would have taken them three, six, 12 months to learn beforehand.”
Tomasz Tunguz Dec 8, 2023 ▶ 3:56 The Where, When, and How of AI with Theory Ventures, Open AI, MotherDuck and Lamini
Jun 18, 2025 positive
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Ramaswamy: Data analysts will shift from writing SQL to preparing AI-ready datasets
“I think what that data analyst, instead of writing millions of variations of basically similar queries, is now going to be describing datasets. He's going to be running these queries, but he's going to give semantic, they're going to give semantic context to w…”
Sridhar Ramaswamy Jun 18, 2025 ▶ 32:53 Snowflake's CEO on the AI Data Cloud, Partner Strategy, and What’s Next
Jun 9, 2026 neutral
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Masad: AI agents work better with file systems than SQL
“Agents really like file systems. They like them better than SQL. They're really trained on doing grep and doing kind of search in the Unix command line.”
Amjad Masad Jun 9, 2026 ▶ 17:01 What Agents That Actually Work Look Like Right Now with Replit's CEO and Founder
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